Plantation Will Buy Rescue Vehicles

May 31, 1995|By BETH FEINSTEIN-BARTL Special to the Sun-Sentinel

PLANTATION - — The City Council took a major step on Wednesday toward getting the city's paramedic service on the road.

Council members approved spending $412,884 to purchase four emergency rescue vehicles. The vehicles should be delivered to the city in the next six to 10 months from the Aero Products Corporation in Sanford.

Plantation was granted a license on May 9 from the Broward County Commission to operate its own ambulances.

Buying the vehicles is the first major cash expenditure the city has made toward establishing its own emergency service.

Plantation is one of five cities that have been given permission to break away from the county's emergency service. The others are Cooper City, Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale and Lauderhill.

City officials have battled the county for three years to obtain the licenses, saying they could do a better job.

Plantation officials said that with their own service they can respond to emergencies within three to four minutes.